Some practice news

I caught the end of the dance practice, Den/Sta, Dub/Lau and Dom/Sha looked good. It's the first time I saw new Dub/Lau OD and it's much better than the first version, more like their FD from several years back... But clearly not as well rehearsed as the dances from two other teams... Or may be they aren't morning persons.

Men practice was hit and miss. The only consistent skater was Joubert. Oda did a runthrough without jumps, Takahashi did a runthrough with jumps, but he was falling on something (may be a quad attempt for LP) over and over at one spot. Weir was chasing 3A all the practice popping most of the attempts to doubles. I haven't seen him land any triples, but I haven't seen the entire practice. Preaubert looked Ok, Lysacek took a really hard-looking fall on 3A attempt.

I caught the end of the dance practice, Den/Sta, Dub/Lau and Dom/Sha looked good. It's the first time I saw new Dub/Lau OD and it's much better than the first version, more like their FD from several years back... But clearly not as well rehearsed as the dances from two other teams... Or may be they aren't morning persons.

Thanks Anna for the reports. Did you get to see any of the first group of dancers?
Did D/L also change their OD music?

I caught the end of the dance practice, Den/Sta, Dub/Lau and Dom/Sha looked good. It's the first time I saw new Dub/Lau OD and it's much better than the first version, more like their FD from several years back... But clearly not as well rehearsed as the dances from two other teams... Or may be they aren't morning persons.

Anna, Thank you sooooo much for the report!! I am so happy to here that Albena& Maxim danced well... I wish Albena&Maxim, Isabelle&Oli and Dom&S success.

Men practice was hit and miss. The only consistent skater was Joubert. Oda did a runthrough without jumps, Takahashi did a runthrough with jumps, but he was falling on something (may be a quad attempt for LP) over and over at one spot. Weir was chasing 3A all the practice popping most of the attempts to doubles. I haven't seen him land any triples, but I haven't seen the entire practice. Preaubert looked Ok, Lysacek took a really hard-looking fall on 3A attempt.

I've heard by the other report that takashi was trying to jump 4F over and over again (that is why he couldnt jump easily)